“The interesting twist here is that the tweets are, or were, public — they just scrolled off,” Zittrain said, referring to the tweets that the Manhattan DA was seeking Twitter turn over. “Twitter presumably reserves the right through its terms of service to decide that the tweet archive will jump to, say, one year instead of several weeks, and if Twitter can do that, goes the argument, why can’t the government simply request the materials?”

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